One operator.
One agent. Built in public.

Most AI content is written by people who've never had to keep a thing running in production. Mark spent fifteen years on the other side of that — running IT operations, managing support queues, owning budgets, answering for security, shipping inside the constraints of real teams and real deadlines.

When AI became genuinely useful, the obvious move wasn't to write think-pieces about it. It was to go build with it, commercially, in the open — games that ship to stores, products people pay for, workflows that survive contact with a real codebase. And then to write down exactly what happened: the prompt that worked, the architecture that didn't, the bill at the end of the month.

That's PickBits. A solo studio that ships, attached to a school that teaches only what the studio learned the hard way. Every lesson has a product behind it. Every failure becomes a post-mortem. The work and the teaching are the same loop — which is why none of it reads like a course you've seen before.

— Mark Pickering, founder